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<br /> <br />Cabarrus County Department of Aging <br />' Policies & Procedures for Naming Facilities and Parks <br />' I. General Policies <br />' 1. The Cabarrus County Department of Aging Advisory Board shall be responsible for <br />the process of advertising, receiving and evaluating names for public facilities and <br />parks that fall under the jurisdiction of the Cabarrus County Department of Aging, <br />and will recommend the chosen name to the Cabarrus County Board of <br />Commissioners. <br />' 2. Final decisions regarding the naming of Cabarrus County Department of Aging <br />facilities and parks shall be made by Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners. <br />3. The Cabarrus County Department of Aging Advisory Board will accept <br />recommendations from any Cabarrus County citizen, groups of citizens or <br />organizations desiring to recommend a name for a facility or park in honor of a <br />' person or in recognition of a historical event, ecological relationship, geographic <br />location, organization, thing, etc. Applications or petitions to honor a person or <br />persons will be considered only when the individual(s) has made exceptional <br />contributions in the following way(s): a) monetary; b) land; or c) other goods and/or <br />services. (To consider naming a major new park or facility for an individual or <br />organization based on monetary contributions, the threshold shall be the donation <br />' of 50 percent or more of the developmental costs.) <br />4. Living individuals, including retired or retiring employees, may be considered for <br />' facilities or parks naming honors if the caliber and magnitude of their service and/or <br />contributions can be substantiated as having been exceptional. <br />' S. Only under extraordinary circumstances will the Cabarrus County Department of <br />Aging Advisory Board consider recommending naming anything within the Cabarrus <br />County Department of Aging system for an individual within the first twelve (12) <br />' months following the individual's death. <br />6. To be considered, names for new facilities or parks should not duplicate or be <br />' closely related to or pronounced similarly to any other names within the county or <br />municipalities' public facilities systems so as to minimize public confusion. <br />' 7. The Cabarrus County Department of Aging Advisory Board may conceive and <br />recommend names for Department of Aging facilities and parks. <br />' Item# 3 <br />Attachment number 1 <br />' F-1 Page 97 of 253 <br />